Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2015 23:08:44 GMT -5
Sept 10, 2015 21:25:44 GMT -5 @jimbobcooter said:
I don't get how anyone who actually knows the history of the Bible can proclaim it is a holy book. All it is is a collection of inconsistent, unrelated short stories, written over thousands of years, often as primitive interpretation of the world before people had the ability to understand the science of the world, and later put together in one large book as a political tool. It has some great fables and lessons in it but isn't something that should be taken litterally. So have I. Read every single word of it, front to back, several times. My two required religion classes, new and old testament survey, taught at a Baptist university but in scholarly, non theistic format, are what made me realize how inconsistent and disconnected of a work it is and go on to get a minor in religious sociology, just because I found the history of it and it's impact on the masses so fascinating. Never mind the lost works from the same time periods on similar subject matter that politicians decided should not be included because it would have been contrary to their interests, that actually offer vastly differing accounts of creation, the flood, the lost years of Christ, the crucifixion,etc. It's about as biased a collection of works as you can get. Actually reading it is what made me walk away from Christianity permanently.